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THE NATIONAL FAIR 

Exhibition Buitomcs 



1879. 



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1879. 



Published by JAMES H. McGILL, Architect, Le Droit Building, Washington, D. C. 




JAMES H. McGILL, Architect. 



PATTERSON AVENUE ENTRANCE. 



V. W. l'n i im, Bu der 



INDUCEMENTS: 
The Largest Stock, 
Every Variety, 
Prompt Delivery, 
Low Prices, 
and 
Honorable Dealing. 



WHEATLEY BROTHERS, 



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UMBER - ia^GHAHTO' 



YARDS 



Ka. ,T/ Water Street, Georgetown, B>, i 

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Corner 7th St. and. Rhode Iskmd Ave,, Washington, D.. C 

Our Facilities are unsurpassed. The promptness with which wo furnished the 

Lumber for the National Fair Association shows that we can furnish 

any amount of Lumber in any given time. 



PACTS: 
V e delivered upon the 

Fair Grounds seventy- 

five thousand n»el of 

Lumber per day P< r S6V- 

crji ii.n s in succession, 
.im! largely over one mill- 
ion feat In thirty iiays. 



Entoml nccortltna '■> ael of Conjjros*, In ihn year 1879 i>\ .1 amics ii \i. i ; ,i , in the ofllco "i iho I .Ibroi lomf Concrcw at Wn>hln ton I) I 



NATIONAL FAIR EXHIBITION BUILDINGS ILLUSTRATED. 



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Description of 



the 



Buildings, 



PATTERSON AVENUE ENTRANCE. 

The engraving; on the first page gives a correct view of this gateway, which is 
intended to be the main public carriage entrance. On each side are quite ornate 
ticket offices thirteen feet square, built of wood, with roofs of cut green and black 
slate laid in patterns. Adjoining the ticket offices are the gates for pedestrians, inside 
of which there are to be turnstiles at the two ticket-takers' windows. In the center 
is the carriage-way, twenty-four feet wide, which is surmounted by a handsome cor- 
nice, in which is set a long tablet, with the words "National Fair Grounds" painted 
on it. Besides this gateway, there are two others similar in finish at the different 
approaches to the grounds, — one at the club-house for the stockholders and their 
friends, and the other at the Ivy City entrance. There is also a large gateway, with 
five entrances in it for pedestrians only, near the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot. 

ART BUILDING. 

The Art Building is seventy-seven feet long, and fifty-one feet wide in the center 
and forty-four feet wide in the wings. It contains the main center room twenty by 
forty-five feet, and four smaller rooms, two on each side, twenty by twenty-six feet. 
The large room has an average height of twenty-five feet and the smaller rooms twenty 
feet. The walls are of pressed brick laid in black mortar, with ornamental moulded 
and black brick string courses, relieved in places with foliated panels of red terra 
cotta. The roof is covered wilh black slates interspersed with bands of green slate. 
The rooms are lighted entirely by large skylights. Instead of plastering the inside 
walls, they have been faced with narrow planed and matched boards, so as to give a 
solid and convenient surface to fasten picture-hooks to. This building was erected in 
eighteen days. 

MAIN BUILDING. 

This building is expected to serve as the main building for this year only, and then 
take its place as a secondary building after the large building is erected. The present 
main building is one large room, one hundred and twenty feet square. The center 
part — seventy feet square — has an average height of about forty feet, and the remain- 
ing portion of the building an average height of about twenty feet in the clear. The 
middle part of the front is two stories high, giving a commodious office-room in the 
second floor. The walls of the building are of brick ; the roof is covered with tin. 
The whole building, both outside and in, is painted in brilliant colors, and presents a 
very striking and attractive appearance. It was built in thirty working days. 

MACHINERY HALL., 

This building is two hundred feet long and eighty feet wide. The front portion is 
arranged for offices for the President, Secretary, Marshal, Committees, and Judges. 

consists of one large exhibition hall, similar in 
It was built in twenty-four 



In the rear r^ * h <»-nffiepj the building 

■■■" "-action with the main building. 



nni-= li ana strl 
working days. 



THE GRAND STAND. 

The grand stand is three hundred feet long, and, including the end stairways, has a 
length of three hundred and fourteen feet. It is thirty-eight feet wide. The super- 
structure rests on one hundred and sixty-two heav3 r brick piers laid in strong cement 
mortar. The timber used in the building is of the best quality of Georgia pine and 
of large sizes. Nothing has been spared to make this building strong beyond all ques- 
tion. The first story, which is twelve feet high in front and twenty-three feet high in 
the rear, contains a lobby thirty-eight by sixty feet, in which is located the two tele- 
graph offices, cigar stands, baggage-checking counters, &e. In the south end is located 
the ladies' dining-room, thirty by one hundred feet ; a kitchen, twenty by thirty feet ; 
a ladies' waiting and toilet rooms, each twenty feet square. In the north end is loca- 
ted the gentlemen's saloon, thirty-eight by one hundred feet, and awash-room twenty 
by thiity-eight feet. In the rear, near the middle, the two large main stairways, each 
seven feet wide, are built. 

In the second stor3' there is a seating capacity for three thousand persons, and 
standing room for nearly a thousand more. Handsome oak chairs have been pro- 
vided for seats. The quarter stretch in front has been planked over. From the 
grand stand a perfect view of every foot of the splendid mile track is obtained. 

The building was sufficiently completed in fifteen working days so that it can be 
used for all purposes, and the ornamental work and painting will be finished after 
the Fair. 

In addition to these buildings, the club-house was remodelled, a two-story piazza 
sixty feet square, and a restaurant thirty by one hundred feet were built on Stewart 
Hill ; and upwards of twenty large stable, cattle, and poultry exhibition buildings, of 
an average size of thirty by one hundred feet each, and fully five miles of fencing, 
have been erected during the seven weeks the work was in progress. The magnifi- 
cent mile track was also surveyed, graded, surfaced, and finished during the same 
time. 

To the energy and ability of the President of the Association. Mr. W. M. Gait, the 
Secretary, Mr. E. C. Bean, and to Commissioner Twining, Messrs. Blackburn, t'lag- 
gett, McKibben and Reed, of the Board of Bireetors, Treasurer Browning, and 
Messrs. Wright, Clarke, Woodbury, and others of the working committees, the public 
is indebted for the successful preparation of this enterprise in time for the opening 
of the Fair. Mr. Thomas Wilson has charge of the Art Department. Curing the com- 
ing year it is expected the grounds and approaches will be put in perfect order. 

The designing, supervising, and general directing of the work was done by James H. 
McG ill, architect, LeDroit Building. Mr. Frederick W. Pilling was the builder. The j 
Washington Brick Machine Company furnished the Brick. James Hughes did the 
brick work. Wheatley Bros, and Thos. W. Smith furnished the lumber. Caverly & 
Co. did the tinning. Webster SeSeer. CA& :hs plastering. Messrs. Hawke & Meehan 
had charge of the painting. Schneider & Sens furnished the iron work. C. Fanning 
did the slating. Albert Gleason built the racing tract. 




LE BEQIT MUIIiBINGi 



Opposite the Post and Patent Offices, 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Architect of the temporary and permanent Northern Liberty Markets, the Riggs Market, the Skating Rink, Le Droit Building, St. Cloud Building, 

Warner's Building, Walsh's Building, alfthe Villas and Cottages in Le Droit Park, all the National Fair Exhibition Buildings, 

and of hundreds of other Buildings in and around the National Capitol. 



MASONIC TEMPLE, 



EDWARD CAVERLY & CO., 
.No. 909 F Street, 

DEALERS HCT 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 




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Plait Iwteis, Mtr Srates* Eange^ fe 



Estimates Furnished for PLUMBING, GAS-FITTING, ROOFING and HEATING. ALL WORK GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION. 



This House did all the Tin Roofing on the Exhibition Buildings at the Fair Grounds, and were awarded First Premium for Fire-Place 

Heaters and Plumbing Materials exhibited at the First Exhibition. 



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NATIONAL FAIR EXHIBITION BUILDINGS ILLUSTRATED. 




JAMES H. McGILL, Architect. 



ART BUILDING. 



F. W. Pillixg, Builder. 



Washington Brick-Machine Company 



OFFICE, 1505 Perm. Avenue, Arlington Insurance Co.'s Building. 



Works, at the Intersection of H and Boundary Streets. 



SKCORFQRaTED SKPTEMBE^ * s » 1@^«- 



C. F. PECK, President. WALTER S. COX, Vice-President. 



NATHANIEL WILSON, Secretary. 

TRUSTEES. 



ANDREW WYLIE, Treasurer. T. L. HOLBROOK, General Manager. 



C. F. PECK. 



W. H. PHILIP. 



ANDREW WYLIE. 



LEWIS CLEPHANF JOHN 0. EVANS. 



W. S. COX. 



NATL WILSON. 



W. M. GALT. 



We make the best briclc in the market, of tempered clay, by the Graham Brick 
Machines. 

Annual product, 20,000,000. Daily product, 80,000. 

Bricks sold for cash at lowest market price. 

Telephone connects office and yard. 

The IT. S. Government uses these brick in the construction of all buildings in 
Washington and its vicinity. 

5011,0110 delivered to the National Fair Grounds in ten days. 4,500,000 furnished, 
in one hundred days, to the National Museum ( or Smithsonian Annex ). 2,000,000 
furnished to new' Slate, War, and Navy Departments. Millions furnished the 
District Government. 

The leading Architects and Builders use and recommend them. 



During the past three years upwards of 2,0110,000 of bricks manufactured by the 

Washington Brick-Machine Company have I n used [n buildings erected under 

my supervision, and I take pleasure In saying thai in all cases they have given 
entire satisfaction. JAMES II. M< GILiE, Architect. 



I have to say, that a large number of these bricks hare been used in buildings 
erected under my charge, and have proved to be fully equal in quality, and much 
superior In shape, to the bricks generally in the market, * 
I have found tnese bricks to possess great advantages In point of economy arid 
appearance. * 

(Signed.) ADOLF <!TUSS, Architect and OMl Engineer. 



I consider the bricks made by the company equal, if m>i superior, toanj manti 
tactured In this vicinity,, and nave no hesitation In recommending them toany 
one having occasion to use bricks, (Signed) JOHN PHASER. 



To the Trustees of the Washington Brick-Machine Co. : 

GtiXTi.tiMEN: As architect of the building creeled by Mr W. W. Corcoran on 
the corner of Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, in this city, 1 was called 
upon to examine the qualitv of the bricks made bv your company. 

The walls of the building above referred to are more solid and present a more 
regular appearance than any others which I have ever constructed. When cut- 
ting into them for various purposes, the brioks were found to be very solid and 
hard, and the mortar adhered With greal power and to an unusual degree. 

Tiie bricks gave entire satisfaction in everj respect, in the construction of this 
building, and, from experience In using them, 1 can unhesitatingly recommend 
them as being thoroughly suited to the construction of the best and larger 
of buildings. JAMES BENWIOK, < Engineer. 



Sec what the Building Inspector says of them 



\\ isiiington, February 1, 1877, 
Washington Brick Machine Co.: 

< ; i \ n.i mi \ in answer to your Inqnln as to the quality of your brick, we 
would state that In the construction of the Convent Building, on Connection! 
avenue, we used a bom 1,(500,000 oi your brick, and found their quality superior to 
any brick used by us In our experience of thirty j ears u> building. The froi 
laid of the red brick, with n white mortar oui Joint, and Is, at .i distance ol tit'iv 
feet from iii.' building, In appearance equal to press-brick The greal -.nun In 
using the brick Is, thai there Is scarcely anj waste, as oul of the above amount 
"in wastage from broken brick In bandittis and dumping was oal) about one 
thousand brioks, Respoctfully, 

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NATIONAL FAIR EXHIBITION BUILDINGS ILLUSTRATED. 




JAMES H. McGILL, Architect. 



MAIN BUILDING. 



F. "W. Pilling, Builder. 



Charles "W. Hawke. David I. Meehax. 

House and Sign Painters. 

No. ill (Pennsylvania Avenue S. E., Capitol Hill, 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 



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References : Thomas "Wilson, Esq., William M. G-alt, Esq., Judge Holt, Alexander 
Hamilton, F. Tenney & Co., National Hotel. 

_P. S. We have had charge of all the Painting and Kalsomining done on the 
national Fair Buildings. 



Residence, 1413 Colejdbia Street. 



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Builder of all the Exhibition Buildings at the National Fair Grounds. 



DEALER IN FRENCH AND AMERICAN 

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NATIONAL FAIR EXHIBITION BUILDINGS ILLUSTRATED, 




JAMES H. McGILL, Architect. 



MACHINERY HALL. 



F. W. Pilling, Builder. 



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We respectfully request a visit to our Establishment, to examine Stock and Prices, prior to purchasing elsewhere. \C 
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Residence, No. 1820 Twelfth Street N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 

Is prepared to do Brick Work, in all its branches, in I he most workmanlike man- 
ner, with Promptness and on Reasonable Teems. 

REI'KltKNCKN.— All Buildings at National Fair Grounds ; Twenty-four Houses in l,o Droit Park ; llesiileneo nf Mr. Thomas Wilson, Connection! Venue, bttffctl II ud \ Sin 



NATIONAL FAIR EXHIBITION BUILDINCrS ILLUSTRATED. 




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GRAND STAND. 



P. TV. Pillin-g, Builder. 



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William Dickson, 

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Claims prosecuted against the United States and District Governments. 
District Securities Mouglit and Sold. Taxes Paid at a Discount 



222 Four-and-a-Half Street, 



above Columbian Building, 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



TV. WHTTE. 



B. OVERMAN. 




WHYTE & OVERMAN, 

Window Caps, Dormer Windows, and all Kinds of Church Trimmings, 

Executed with Pispatch, 
Which for CHEAPNESS and DURABILITI SURPASS WOOD or STONE. 

PLACE OF BUSINESS: 

Corner of C and Thirteenth Streets N. W„ WASHINGTON, D, C. 



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Massachusetts Avenue, near 7th Street IT. W. 5 



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NATIONAL FAIR EXHIBITION BUILDINGS ILLUSTRATED. 



HilAi . W. 0MTOH, 

AVHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN 



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i*Yrs£ Street and Indiana Avenue, 



Near Baltimore & Ohio Depot. 



WASBrarcraoiir,, 13. o. 



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Door and Window Frames Made to Order. Odd Size Doors, Sash, and Blinds Furnished at Short Notice. 

Estimates Furnished at any Time. All First Quality Work Guara.nteed. 



Web stem Brothers, 



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Jobbing Promptly Sttei^ded to. 



I. B. WEBSTER, G. W. WEBSTER, 

450 Q Street N. W. 1114 4th Street N. W. 



We Plastered all the Exhibition Buildings at the Fair Grounds. 



Barber, Henderson & Co., 

318 Eighth Street Northwest, 

DEALERS IN 

©001% jSkjitft, Bliqd^ >Iouldin^, 

Slate and Marble Mantels, 

Latrobe Stoves, Ranges, &c. 



^Builders' Hardware of cell Kinds. 



^OTOWLJS^C I»I^-A.KriJSTC3- MILLS. 



|ttifeK|eite^Ml |MiWara| of |loorin| Ja^ jon?, ijphft. |rufato 

MOWIiBIlieS, SiULUS^ESEfcS^ Etc. 
Ninth Street Wharves Southwest, WASHINGTON. D. C. 



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504 to 210 12th Street, and 1201 to 1209 Ohio Avenue, 



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WASHIKTGTOKT, 13. C 

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MANUFACTURERS AND BUILDERS OF 

Stairs, Balconies, Verandas ; Wrought and Cast Iron Railings; Plain and Ornamental Window Caps, Sills, Guards, and Boskets: Cresting; 

and Columns of all sizes and designs. Stair- Building a Specialty. Safe and Vault Doors and Frames Built to 

Order. All kin's of Machinery made and Repaired. 

Wo have Furnished all tho Iron Work used in the Krovtion of the National Fair Building 



NATIONAL FAIR BUILDINGS ILLUSTRATED. 



m^ywamb & mwF€mmmM 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



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317 NINTH STREET, 




Healers in If aria* Hi-rates, Ranges, and Fimxasas* 



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Charles ar. vjushsusg, 




Office and Slate Yard, Corner 9th and H Streets N, W., 



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kqd OnVan\er|tal $latiqrf of all kir)d$ doqe iij tl^e fefe^t ma^er', at ^t|Oi't notide arid. I<ow Pfide^. 
f^epairii^ of f(oof£ a $pedalty, ai\d kll woi'k C^uafaqteed. Wall jSlate of all kiqd£ foi< £ale. 



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"White and ■our.d teeth are indispensable to health and longevity, by a proper 
mastication of the food This unique White Powder is of inestimable value in 
preserving and beautifying the Teeth, strengthening the Gums, and in imparting 
a pleasing fragrance to the Breath. It. eradicates Tartar from the Teeth, removes 
spots of incipient decay, and polishes and preserves the enamel,— to which it 
imparts a pearl-like whiteness. Its antiseptic and anti-scorbutic properties exer- 
cise a highly beneficial and salutary influence ; they arrest the further progress 
of the decay of Teeth, induce a healthy action of the Gums, and cause them to 
assume the brightness and colors indicative of perfect soundness ; while, by con- 
firming their adhesion to the Teeth, they give unlimited enjoyment and fresh zest 
to appetite, by perpetuating effective and complete mastication. It speedily re- 
moves those ravages which children sustain in the Teeth, owing to the improper 
use of sweet and acid substances, and is particularly recommended to parents and 
persons who have the care of children as the greatest preservative of young and 
tender Teeth. 

DIRECTIONS.— "Wet the brush, and then dip it in the Powder, and use freely. 

Prepared by D. KOLB, Pharmaceutist, 

Comei- Seventh and E Streets, WASHINGTON, D. Q. 



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IBNBBAL HABDWABB. 



& §\ mUt & do., 

IN"o. 614 ^Pennsylvania Avenue, 

WASHINGTON, B. C. 



L. H. Schneider. 



L H. SCHNEIDER & CO. 

ttilMng iorttoarf, Cntleo), funis, 

111 IE0I MB mm, EdEiWW All Mil, 

iiiiEM hhikq m imiiiw wmwm, 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, 

1010 and 1012 Penna. Avenue, 



JOS. & J. E. LIBBET, 




A LARGE STOCK OF 

Georgia and Virginia Pine Flooring, well seasoned ; Oak, Ash, 

Walnut, and Poplar ; 3-inch Prime Seasoned White 

Tine, and 4=inch Seasoned Walnut. 



A Large and Well-Assorted Stock of Lumber of all Kinds. 



Thomas McGill & Co., Job Printers, Washington, I). ft 



